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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Marsymars »

mschuster91 wrote: post #206
Marsymars wrote: post #160

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Nest cameras used to have a user toggle to enable/disable the camera LED; not the worst reason I can think of.

Yeah, and then came people hiding cameras in places where you clearly did not want a camera to be. Bathrooms in public areas, hotels, workplaces and AirBnBs are a much too common issue, it's like daily news some creep gets busted for running cameras.

Yeah, my implication was just that the worst thing I could think of were cameras where the owners don't realize that some third-party is recording them.

LEDs won't stop creeps — the camera owner can always disable LEDs with a bit of electrical tape.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by isoprophlex »

brusseliz wrote: post #271
isoprophlex wrote: post #147

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I desperately want this, but our Frame has never been connected to the Wifi, and I'm really reluctant to do so, as it will probably start snitching and/or delivering ads...

The tv-ws-api can be used over ethernet. I control my Frame TV from a pi through direct ethernet cable and the pi separately connects to my home LAN over WiFi and serves an app for Frame art control. The TV has never had direct access to the LAN or internet. Check the frame subreddit for several such projects.

excellent! this is just what i'd find allowable. direct frame-to-internet seems like a nightmare unless you'd create your own firmware like another commenter says. thanks!

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by neop1x »

ziofill wrote: post #303

Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.

No, they will just encrypt firmware, add more signature verifications and lock devices to accounts in order to complicate reuse, increase sales and produce more ewaste.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by mschuster91 »

Marsymars wrote: post #311
mschuster91 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, and then came people hiding cameras in places where you clearly did not want a camera to be. Bathrooms in public areas, hotels, workplaces and AirBnBs are a much too common issue, it's like daily news some creep gets busted for running cameras.

Yeah, my implication was just that the worst thing I could think of were cameras where the owners don't realize that some third-party is recording them. LEDs won't stop creeps — the camera owner can always disable LEDs with a bit of electrical tape.

> Yeah, my implication was just that the worst thing I could think of were cameras where the owners don't realize that some third-party is recording them.

At the point we are in time... honestly, I don't expect this thing called "privacy" any more. And I'm, notably, German. Glassholes, camera surveillance everywhere, our police is more and more turning into the rabid hellscape that is American police with far-right authoritarians at the helm and more and more forces joining up with Palantir or working on a European alternative.

I'm dead sure that at least law enforcement plus dedicated individuals with access to ad data brokers can work out precisely when I had a wank and what I wanked to, now there being a video of me wanking would only be the icing on the cake.

> LEDs won't stop creeps — the camera owner can always disable LEDs with a bit of electrical tape.

Many even forget about that piece of opsec, which is why they get caught in the first place, eventually the tape falls off.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by fwip »

fragmede wrote: post #118
fwip wrote: post #76

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It seems like most of these "an LLM solved this in only X hours! " could have been "I found an open source solution that did what I needed with X minutes of web search." Which doesn't mean that the LLM definitely couldn't have accomplished it without the prior art (in either the training set or explicitly in a a web search). But it does seem to be a trend.

If give an AI the full set of files it needs to RE a file format, and it's running xxd in tool calls in order to document the file format, I don't think it's cheating by copying it off the Internet.

It might be reverse-engineering it, but it also might be kayfabe. (Kayfabe is what professional wrestlers do - the storyline and matches are scripted, but it's presented as real. LLMs excel at doing this.) Similar to how Anthropic showed that their LLMs appear to "think ahead" when writing poetry to come up with a rhyme[1], so too might the knowledge of a file's structure influence how the LLM approaches analysis.

As a simplistic example, suppose one section of the file is known by the model to be bzip2 compressed - the LLM may use xxd to scan for common magic numbers that "just so happens" to include 42 5A (Bz). Every step of analysis is like this - what threads to look for, and which ones to pull on. Somebody or something who mostly-remembers the answer is going to find the answer quicker than if they'd gone in blind.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by ziofill »

neop1x wrote: post #314
ziofill wrote: post #303

Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.

No, they will just encrypt firmware, add more signature verifications and lock devices to accounts in order to complicate reuse, increase sales and produce more ewaste.

I agree, but like many others I'm willing to pay a fair price for that freedom and ownership, and I believe there is a customer base to be captured. And in the end there's a cost for a company to put all of those locks in place, which they could simply avoid.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by [deleted] »

willdr wrote: post #145
ryandrake wrote: post #111

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The user should be the final authority over what his computer does. Not the computer manufacturer. Not the OS developer. Not the 3P app developer. Not some product manager at a software company. The end user. Even time computer says no, or does something without your permission, or does something counter to your wishes, or alerts you to do something, or urges you to do something, or makes you opt-out, is a failure.

The end user disables pixel cleaning because the pop-up annoys them. They then start bitching about burn-in within 6 months, RMA the monitor even though it was their choice to do so, and spread negative sentiment about your brand going forward for being "prone to burn in".

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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by nyanmatt »

alienbaby wrote: post #299
Aurornis wrote: post #54

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Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last. You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care. Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for the alert is a strange self-defeating protest next to the explanation that it was a pretty expensive monitor.

Reminds me of the degauss button on my old eizo crt...

I miss the sound and visuals from a good degaussing

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by some_random »

ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

That's exactly what it is, and it's pretty important to run
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